When building a CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION enabled kernel without the libelf devel package installed, the Makefile prints a warning:
"Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel" But when building an out-of-tree module, the warning doesn't show. Instead it tries to use objtool, and the build fails with: /bin/sh: ./tools/objtool/objtool: No such file or directory Make sure the warning and the disabling of objtool occur in all cases, by moving the CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION checks outside the 'ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)' block in the Makefile. Reported-by: Marc MERLIN <m...@merlins.org> Suggested-by: Jessica Yu <j...@redhat.com> Fixes: 3b27a0c85d70 ("objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build") Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> --- Makefile | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 8e223e0..bcf7036 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -908,6 +908,18 @@ mod_sign_cmd = true endif export mod_sign_cmd +ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION + has_libelf := $(call try-run,\ + echo "int main() {}" | $(HOSTCC) -xc -o /dev/null -lelf -,1,0) + ifeq ($(has_libelf),1) + objtool_target := tools/objtool FORCE + else + $(warning "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel") + SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION := 1 + export SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION + endif +endif + ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),) core-y += kernel/ certs/ mm/ fs/ ipc/ security/ crypto/ block/ @@ -1035,18 +1047,6 @@ prepare0: archprepare gcc-plugins # All the preparing.. prepare: prepare0 prepare-objtool -ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION - has_libelf := $(call try-run,\ - echo "int main() {}" | $(HOSTCC) -xc -o /dev/null -lelf -,1,0) - ifeq ($(has_libelf),1) - objtool_target := tools/objtool FORCE - else - $(warning "Cannot use CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel") - SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION := 1 - export SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION - endif -endif - PHONY += prepare-objtool prepare-objtool: $(objtool_target) -- 2.7.4